Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 15, 1913, Page 2

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Little Betsy Stevens slipped a hood over her bright hair, and, wrapping herself in & blue cloak, she swept a path from the kitchen door to the hen house and another and longer cne out to the road that ran past the lonely house into the woods beyond. The road was lonely and fearsome because the British encampment was rot far away and the red-coated sol-| diers had ravaged the little farmhouse ! of its choicest provisiors, and of the big flock of chickens there remained one solitary member—Old Nicodemus. | the ancient red rooster. | Betsy Stevens looked carefully nn' and down the road. but there was not the flicker of a red coat, and when ghe kad fnizhed sweeping her path she leaned her round chin on the broom | handle ard looked dreamily through ! the falling flakes at the beginning of | cther wocd beyond which the Amerl-| can troops were encamped. It was from this wood that Betsy ex- ‘ pected her lover to ride some fine day. No, she had never met him yet —he was a dream lover, but lately 'e had taken on the form and fea- tures of her hero, Gen. George Wuh ington. Snppose, now, this very minute, a NMack charger should break thrm!(h‘ the woods and appear on the white ress of the snov v ,oad! Suj. ‘ose he thould ride strai 1 up to Tet:v Stev- ens and from be' »? e m M p ‘ol of his blie cloak look down at her from deep, myvstieal eyes—and ask| for a bite to eat and a night's lodg- | ing! How wonderful It would be—che would lead him to the house and her| urcle and aunt would hasten to wait | earry in his supper! And—and—well, | there. because she never had been In‘I love. and at this point she usually be- | came very confused under the Imagi- | mary macie of those wonderful eyes. But tonight the road was deserted. No hero came forth to ask for food ;| 2nd lodzing. Only the snow fell goft- Iy and the wind moaned bitterly. She )/ thought of tho roldiers—the blne and buft army—roorly clad. seantily fed, l ! imsnMelently warmed—and hor heart throbbed in pity for thelr eufforings, | ‘ A hot wave of resentment asainat the | invaders cureed in her gentle breast. Ry the {ime the even meal was elesrad awar the storm had tnereased nd, sereamed picre-! ironnd the anue farmhonse and swirled madly in freezing Tnbez Stevena and hia wife went to bod early that nizht, krowing that* the carlv. marving would bring them hord w after the storm. A nervens and exeited by the Letorm ent by tho elowing logs on the kitehon hearth, cvddling Poter, the Bie Vet eat Tha o'd elock in the ecrner tietod {door ard make a (hene ven will dark brows. “Yes—I was sent on a secret mission and I was returning to camp when I lost my way, and I have been wandering around in the woods and fields for hours. Just ag I had given up hope I saw a gleam of llght from your window and so I came.” U~tsy placed the bowl of steaming porriuce and milk in his hands. “You had better take off your cloak 2nd spread it to dry,” suggested Betsy 'as hir guest arose and sat down fin . the big chair. He shooi: his hcad and wrapped the fin- | cloak still mcie snugly about bim. He had lost his hat, and the wind aml snow had removed the powder (rom his hair, so that it showed its patural ' a|color—a rich brown. Betsy watched him with tender. timid eyes. “Tomorrow he will tell us that he is the commander-in-chief,” Betsy dreamily. “Now I must run and ask Uncle Jabez if I may put him in the spare chamber.” She started to her feet, but the stranger liited a * {thapely hand in protest. i “Where are you going. little maid?” he asked, knitting his handsome ' i brows. 1% “To awaken my uncle and tell him that you are here—we will then pre- ' - pare a bed for you and—" she raused 'as the strarger rose with precipitate haste and came toward her. “I pray vou do not disturb anyone.” he pleaded in his rich voice. have quite revived me. v\hen the war is over—perhaps I may ! {come and thank you again for saving | my life.” Betsy’s heart beat tumultuously, | . and her lovely eyes drooped and l! she stood there mute she could see a ! strange thing happening to his soaked ! cloak. Steam from the hoat of the fire was rising from the cloth. and lit- r tle by little it was drying and wher ever it had dried it was—=scarlet! He lo~ked down and saw it ton, and & nrhane penliz 1g that he was diseov- ere? ' b her enemy, he tossed aside the scariet eloak £o that “I am ! the rond—where It emerged from an. | E0Ing now—vour kind miristrations | ; Some dny— | % i beldly ¢ she could see the splendor of his red ! {and eold uniform. She had ten 'wr"r"\'“'w one of % the re- of conntry! one her his majesty’s o wic’ <1 invacers of Tears came to Retsy's lovely eyes— Who could hated Britisher? We Won't Sacrifice Qualin but we arc always studjing how ¢ Increase The Quantiry We zive the “most now but we are anxious more. Pione us and|prove it. Fest Butter, per pound . .. 8ugar, 16 pounds ........ Cottolene, 10 ponnd pails. . 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Twcca - i B LY R I I I P B R R cerene -amee cesemeie " “Why are you erylng?" he luked By i gontly. “I—thought perhaps you were Gen-' eral Washington,” whispered Retsy, | fearful now that her wake up and find the intruder. “And if yon had known who I was you would nnt have let me in out of ‘he storm?" he queried. “Ah—yes—I must do that!” eried fmpulsive Retey. “T would not have vou think T am sorry for the little 1 feould do—T am glad—elad—but T am corry Unele Tnhnz dooen't like—Brit- ishors” sha ended najvelv Heo emilod very tenderlv upon her troubled foee. “1 am sorry, too; hut come day whren this war is over— then mav T eome riding up to vonr call upon Mis- tregs——-2" “Notey coftly. supplied Rotsy sir—and 1 the war Stovone, “Yes veu may, o through safelv.” “Thank ven” he eaid as he hent over her little hand, and his lips briched ft “Ged oo with von” wh ns he ctonnad throneh the deor: tennred Potey ha ‘L weard her and his oves ehana “what 10 finds will out— s red meouth in a * eame a sound out- * the Kkitehen deor. It was a Med thud fellowed by a faint grean, IPotey’s heart utr‘rd et '1 for an in- stant, Th window and " onred ont I Paddied et the deorstep che covrld sce a dark form splashed with snow It mnct he cne of the soldicrs from the eamn. In some desperate noed he kod come for food or remedies— or possibly en~ who had lost his way in the blinding storm. With a little ery of pity Betsy un. Iatched tha door and the form tumbled into the room. With slender, strain. ing arms she manaced to drag it to the fireplace. where it loned down in a hean When she had closed the door unon the howling storm. Retsy ran to the storeroem. and in five min- utes she lind made a mug of mnlleq cider and was helding it to the white, stif Vipe of the exhansted man. Her hoart beat riotonsly, It could be no other than her hero— the ereat general-#his splendid man wrapped in the dark cloak. his noble | face as white as the snow he came ! out of. Slowly his lins moved, slowly he \swanm\-rd. once. twice; slowly his [ 11ds lifted above handsome hazel eves | to gaze for one bewildered {nstant 3 into Betey's tender little face. He smfled and his lips murmured gratl. tude. Then he jerked himself-to a sitting posture and leaned against the ! dig hickory chair. s “You are very kind,” he murmured in rather a surnrised way as Retsy threw more loes on the fire and poked them vigorously. He draped his soaking cloak more closely around his shoulders. ! *“Did you lose your way in the storm?” asked Betsy, intent on warm. ' ing a skillet of porridge for the way- farer. He looked up at her under otuw o fully, Thy and en m N mony a lane vena N ho ra. ctory q v i the dene. fire and can nefther Unele knew a word ¢ ward. But there was enmathine etill marn wonderfn! had spent four anvions veare waiting for the war to end. worrving ahant the safety of her n == horo, foeling a traitor beeanse sho had really lost her heart to the strancor there eame a day when the wor was over and evervone was forline hannv and almest eordial toward tha vananished enemy, It wo= on that hanny dav that Ratey went intn tha wnands enekina trajling arbutus, fer {t was May and the whole world waa a.quiver with new life. A horseman ecame riding down the mossv path and Retsy turned. her hands full of the odorous pink blos- soms. A warm color flooded her fair face as their evee mot. He had doed hia scarlet nniform and wore clothes of hoantifnl evav eatin “Mjstress Noter Qtovene™ he eaid bowine to the eronrd “T have come back beeaven [ want to thank von for savine my Yifo—oaprd T have come haek becanse 1 ean never ha hapny aeain nnless yon nromise to marry me and protect me hereaftar There wac 2 emila in his ayes ae he sald this. and somehow Reter conld see In a flach that it was her hern standing thero—and that che chould alwavrs love him desnite country or erced or protesting relatives, sdorfal thipg was that Tahnz ner Annt T rbout it until long after- Aftor Doty But it o hannened that her rnh-l tives made no protest—indasd, they were qnite delichted that little Retey shonld make such a splendid mar- riage Ard it was not until she beeame Lady Fairbairn that Retsy and her hnchand told the relatives abont the snowy night when Betsy saved his lite. 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